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 BANGALORE, India (AP) - Mobbed by TV cameramen, journalists and supporters, a 27-year-old doctor flew home to a hero's welcome Sunday in southern India after being freed from jail in Australia when terror charges against him were dropped.
Looking relaxed and smiling, Mohammed Haneef was whisked from the airport to his family's home, where a celebratory feast was being held, after flying from Brisbane, Australia, earlier in the day. Haneef's jailing had aroused waves of sympathy in his native India.
"What can give a mother more happiness? My child is free and he is coming home," Haneef's mother, Qurrath-Ul-Ain, said as she passed around sweets to cousins and neighbors at her home, which was decked out with strings of jasmine flowers, balloons and streamers.
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